CHAOS BEGINS — STUDENT PARTICIPATION
“NOW,” Dr. Mayhem
announced, “each table gets a REAL physics challenge!”
He passed out
equipment:
- balloons
- syringes
- vacuum jars
- marshmallows
- springs
- a suspicious amount of duct tape
Lucy gasped. “We’re going to build something, aren’t we?”
“YES!” he said.
“You’ll each demonstrate one real physics principle.”
Ray & Lucy: Conservation of Momentum
They built a balloon-rocket on a string.
“Release on my mark,” Ray said.
“Three, two—”
Ethan sneezed.
FWOOOOSH!!
The balloon shot across the room, ricocheted off Dr. Mayhem’s face, corrected
course, and slammed into the fire alarm button.
The alarm blared.
“That,” Dr. Mayhem yelled over the ringing, “is conservation
of momentum. Excellent work!”
Amy: Vacuum Expansion
She placed a marshmallow inside a vacuum jar and pumped air
out.
The marshmallow grew…
and grew…
and grew…
“Like the air was holding it down!” Amy explained.
“CORRECT!” Dr. Mayhem cheered. “Lower external pressure →
expansion of trapped gas!”
Then Ethan poked it.
It exploded into fluff.
Final Demonstration: Newton’s Third Law + The Watermelon
Railgun
Dr. Mayhem rolled out a long tube.
“Newton’s Third Law: every action has an equal and opposite
reaction. Also: LET’S FIRE A WATERMELON ACROSS CAMPUS.”
Students screamed with joy.
He loaded the melon.
Ray: “Is this legal?”
Amy: “Is anything he’s done legal?”
Lucy: “Shh. Let me enjoy this.”
Dr. Mayhem pulled the ignition cord.
FWOOOOOOSH—
The watermelon blasted out of the tube—
ZOOOOM—
straight out the window—
across the sports field—
over Coach Rex training students in military dodgeball—
and SPLAT into the far fence.
Coach Rex yelled,
“GOOD SHOT! TEN POINTS FOR SCIENCE TEAM!”
Dr. Mayhem bowed.
“Class dismissed.”
The kids stared at each other.
Ray: “Best. Teacher. Ever.”
Amy: “The theories were correct but the execution was… alarming.”
Lucy: “I want to sign up for advanced science.”
Ethan: “I want to major in watermelons.”
Below the school, the secret base robots felt the kids’
excitement through the neural link… and prepared themselves for whatever chaos
tomorrow’s classes would bring.
LLoC Quotes
“Newton’s Third Law: every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Also: LET’S FIRE A WATERMELON ACROSS CAMPUS.”
“Is this legal?”...“Is anything he’s done legal?”...“Shh. Let me enjoy this.”
Ray: “Best. Teacher. Ever.”
Amy: “The theories were correct but the execution was… alarming.”
Lucy: “I want to sign up for advanced science.”
Ethan: “I want to major in watermelons.”
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